Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Lower Grades (LG K-3)
Book Level
5.7
Points
0.5
Fiction/Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Word Count
1024
Points per Word
0.000488
Page Count
32
Points per Page
0.015625
Description
Today, the NBA is around 74% Black but, when basketball first started to catch on, it wasn't easy for Black people to play. They couldn't enter segregated YMCAs or attend privileged colleges. So Black Americans made their own spaces.